What Are Adverse Actions?

Retaliation includes actions or statements that are intimidating, threatening, coercing, interfering, or discriminating.

Adverse actions occur when:

• A College action significantly disadvantages an individual (e.g., lowering grades, limiting participation, suspension, termination, etc.); or
• A College action reasonably acts as a deterrent to further protected activity, or precludes an individual from pursuing discrimination claims (e.g., intimidating statements that create a chilling effect on those asserting a civil right).